Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 3 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 4 | ‘ I would remind you both , ’ said the abbot gently , ‘ that if she has been all this while consulting her own wishes , and imposing them upon us mortals , Saint Winifred is again on her own altar in our church . |
| 5 | If you had been any any where else on the hill you 'd have , would n't have a chance cos you could n't , you could n't follow the track that they they di they followed the day before . |
| 6 | I do n't know what I 'd have done if you 'd been any later — the girls are getting terribly impatient . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But , Madam , if you e'er was such , |
| 8 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |
| 9 | And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but |
| 10 | Any new drug in Britain is , every year the G P who 's prescribing that for you gets a letter from a centre down in Southampton to ask if there 've been any adverse reactions . |
| 11 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |
| 12 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 13 | This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it . |
| 14 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 15 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 17 | No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all . |
| 18 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 19 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 20 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 21 | Things might have been different if there had been more consultation with industry people across the board . |
| 22 | A petition organized by the Jewish people 's Council against Fascism and Anti-Semitism collected 77,000 signatures in two days ; it was felt that if there had been more time over a quarter of a million would have signed against Mosley 's proposed demonstration . |
| 23 | Mick is convinced that if there had been more staff available the attack might never have happened . |
| 24 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 25 | In the 1990s there were many more at hand to help them escape , people who might have been more profitably employed than in these negative exercises if there had been fewer who needed their services . |
| 26 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 27 | Even if there had been another big story , it would have to be very big indeed to be bigger than this one ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ If there had been another — any other — I would have backed him , not you . ’ |
| 29 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |